Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1909 — Page 3

EVENTS IN 1908

Notable Occurrences the World Over. CRISES IN fiOVERNIENT. A j Carefully Classified Summary of Affairs at Home and*Abroad—Miscellaneous Happenings—Fatal Explosions on band and Sea—bosses by Fire—The Field of Sports.

POLITICAL AND PERSONAL

JANUARY. A Mulal Halid proclaimed sultan of Morocco at Fez. M. Gladys Vanderbilt married to Count Laszlo Bzechenyl of Hungary in New York city. FEBRUARY. L King Carlos of Portugal and the crown prince Luiz Filippe assassinated at Lisbon. X Manuel, second son of the assassinated monarch, proclaimed king as Manuel U. of Portugal. MARCH. 42. Several Haitian revolutionists shot by order of President Alexis. * S i 27. At the demand of the powers President Alexis allowed revolutionist suspects to leave Haiti APRIL. X Thomas E. Watson of Georgia nominated for president by the People's party at St. Louis. A Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, prime minister of England, resigned. 8. Herbert S. Asquith appointed prime minister of England by King Edward. 25. Cardinal Logue, head of the Roman Catholic church in Ireland, arrived -in New York to participate in the centennial of the New York archdiocese. MAT. A Manuel, the boy king of Portugal, formally Invested with the royal crown and the royal scepter of the realm. A Bear Admiral Bobley D. Evans relinquished command of the Atlantic battleship fleet. IS. The Socialist party nominated Eugene V. Debs and Benjamin Hanford at Chicago. M. The emergency currency bill signed by the president. Congress adjourned. JUNE. 't. King Edward VIL of England and Emperor Nicholas IL of Russia met for an official conference at Revel. 10. Gen. Clement A. Evans of Georgia elected commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans. 2X W. H. Taft nominated for president at thq. Republican convention in Chicago. IX Persian parliament overthrown by force for refusing the demands of the shah. 2A New parliament ordered in Persia and general amnesty proclaimed. July. L Secretary of War W. H. Taft resigned and was succeeded by Gen. Luke E. Wright. 0. Diplomatic relations severed between the United States and Venezuela. 10. William Jennings Bryan nominated for the presidency by the Democratic convention at Denver. IX Obaldia elected president of Panama. ML Eugene W. Uiiafln and Aaron 8. Watkins nuininaied for president and vice president by the Prohibitionists convention at Columbus, O. 2X The Prince of Wales landed at Quebec to attend the tercentenary celebration. M Constitutional government restored In Turkey. * Thomas L. Hisgen and John Temple Graves nominated for president and vice president by the Independence convention at Chicago. AUGUST.

IX Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, U. S. N.. placed on the retired list, having reached the age limit of 63 years. to The Kongo annexation treaty adopted by the Belgian chamber of deputies. 2X Mulal Hafld, pretender to the throne of Morocco, proclaimed ■ultan following defeatof the army of Abdul Aziz, the sultan of record.

SEPTEMBER. 3. Col. Henry M. Nevius elected commander in chief of the G. A. R. at To-' ledo. OCTOBER. ft, Bulgaria declared independent of Turkey by Prince Ferdinand, Who proclaimed himself "czar of the Bulgars.** ft Austria annexed the nominally Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the territory of the empire. , NOVEMBER. 8. The national election resulted in the choice of W. H. Taft. Popular vote: Republican, 7,837,676; Democratic, 6,393,182; Socialist, 448,453; Prohibitionist, 241,252; Independence league, 83,186; People’s party, 33,871; Socialist Labor. 15,421; total for all tickets, 14,853,041. 13. Death of Kwang Seu, emperor of China, announced at Pekin. 14. Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez elected president of Cuba by the Liberals. DECEMBER. 8. Pu Yi enthroned as emperor Hosuantung of China, with Prince Chun regent. Revolutionists deposed President Alexis of Haiti. L Last session 60th- congress opened. ft. Nobel prize for literature awarded to Prof. Rudolf Eucken of Gegnany. K M Acting President Goines of Venezuela declared the republic at war with Holland. # . 3k The president explained and defended the Panama canal purchase in a special message to congress.

GAMES AND RACES

MARCH. 14. Meelick won the 810.608 Crescent Derby at New Orleans. APRIL.. \ 8. Sotch defeated Hackenschmldt tar world's heavyweight wrestling championship at Chicago. Ik Jack Atkin won the 810,600 Carter handicap on the Agueduct track. Maw York. t MAY. ft Calvin Boms rest of Chicago won the tolOfnAtfonsl Rtnßtxir billtard

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Fkmship in New York, defeating Berolle, the Frenchman, by the score of - 400 to 216 points. Latonla won the Kentucky Derby at Louisville. t IX Jack Atkin won the Metropolitan ' handicap at Balmont park, New York. 16. Jay Gould defeated Eugene Mlles, the English player, for the world’s’ amateur tennis championship in London. JUNK. L Celt won the Brooklyn handicap at Gravesend Bay. N. Y, X Slgtaorinetta, an Italian horse, won the English Derby. 14. W. K. Vanderbilt's horse Northeast won the Grand Prix de Paris, the greatest race of the French turf. IX Ballot, owned by J. R. Keene, won the Suburban handicap at Sheepshead Bay. N. Y. 25. Harvard won the vqrsity boat race at New London. • • ' ' JULY. A Battling Nelson defeated Joe Gans for

the lightweight championship of the world in 17 rounds at San Francisco. IX Martin J. Sheridan of New York made a new world record by hurling 7 the discus 128 feet fl Inches at the London Olympic games. M John J. Hayes, an American, won the Olympic Marathon in London.

august. , t 25. Allen Winter won the American Trotting Derby at Rendville, Mass. 80. Maakette won the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y. SEPTEMBER. X Papke defeated Ketchel in 12 rounds for middleweight championship at Los Angeles. OCTOBER. 14. The Chicago National league baseball club (Cubs) won the world’s championship by defeating the Detroit American league club (Tigers) at Detroit; score 2—o. XL George Robertson, driving a 90 horsepower Locomobile, won the Vanderbilt cup in the auto race at the Motor parkway, New York; speed average 04 miles an hour. NOVEMBER. 7. Harvard defeated Carlisle Indians at . football at Cambridge, 17 to 0. Wisconsin defeated Minnesota at football, 5 to 0, at Minneapolis. 14. Yale defeated Princeton, 11 to 6, at football. Chicago and Cornell played to a tie score of 6 to 6 at football. Pennsylvania defeated Michigan, 28 to 0, on the gridiron at Ann Arbor. 2L Harvard defeated Yale at football on Yale field; score 4 to 0. 36. Pennsylvania, defeated Cornell at football, 17 to A in Philadelphia. Wagner in a Fiat car won the Grand Prize of the Automobile club, driving 402 miles in 6 hours 10 minutes 31 seconds, at Savannah. 2X West Point defeated Annapolis at football "in Philadelphia, 6 to 4. 80. Pat McDonald tossed the 56 pound weight 16 feet three-eighths inch in New York, smashing the world’s record of 15 feet 7 inches, held by Matt McGrath. Norman Brooks and A. F. Wilding, Australian defenders of the international lawn tennis trophy, defeated the American challengers at Melbourne. DECEMBER. X Tom Collins made a new American record for 5 mile run in New York; time 25 minutes 19 2-5 seconds. 12. MacFarland and Moran, the PaclflcAtlantic team, won the 6 day bicycle race in New York; distance, 2,737 miles. 1 lap, beating the record 3 miles and 7 laps.

STORM AND FLOOD

JANUARY. L 35 deaths in * tornado near Wesson, Miss. FEBRUARY. 16. Highest water of the Pittsburg flood, which caused damage estimated at 83W.000. MARCH. L An avalanche crushed a hotel at Goppenstein. Switzerland, killing 13 persons and injuring 15. APRIL. IL 11 deaths in a gale which swept over New York city. 28-4. Nearly 400 persons killed, many thousands injured and much property destroyed by a tornado which swept the southern states from Texas to Georgia. MAT. IX 12 people killed by a tornado at Bellevue, Neb. 13. 50 deaths by a tornado in Louisiana. 38. 10 persons killed by a tornado in Alfalfa county, Okla. JUNE. 6. Windstorms and flood caused heavy loss of life in Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and lowa. august. CT. Climax of flood in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, which resulted in the loss of many lives; dam- . age in the three states estimated at over 32,000,000. 3L 15 persons drowned by a cloudburst st Folsom, N. M. OCTOBER. 2L Destructive cloudburst and flood In Oklahoma. NOVEMBER. 38. 26 killed and 48 injured by a tornado in Arkansas.

DISASTERS AT SEA

FEBRUARY. 2. Phoenix line steamship St. Cuthbert destroyed by explosion off Nova Scotia; 15 deaths. 14. American ship Emily Reed wrecked off the Oregon coast; 10 sailors lost. 17. Britisfi steamer Aslak wrecked on the Norwegian coast; 14 sailors lost. APRTIs. * .’.Tr 2. British torpedo boat destroyer Tiger cut in two by collision with the cruiser Berwick off the Isle of Wight; 3ft men drowned. 35. 15 persons drowned by the capsizing of the steamer Marion near the mouth of the St. Francis river, Arkansas. it sailors killed and missing In a collision between the British cruiser Gladiator and the American liner St. Paul off the Ide of Wight 3ft Japan’s protected cTOlser Matsushima destroyed by explosion off Pescadores islands; over 200 deaths reported. , , MAY. XI The fishing schooner Fame run down by the Dominion Atlantic lino steamer Boston off the coast of Maine; 13 sailers drowned. rows. 3ft Spanish steamer Larache wrecked near Muros, with heavy loss of life among passengers and crow. AUOtTST. 3ft 6B pnssMioese lost fit the wrecking of the Norwegian steamer Folgefonden nff Norway.

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26. British steamer Duneam wrecked lb a typhoon off the island of Klhuiu, Japan; 51 lives lost. SEPTEMBER. L British bark Amazon wrecked near Fort Talbot; 27 sailors drowned. 20. The salmon cannery ship Star of Bengal wrecked in a storm off Coronation island; 110 people drowned. 27. 20 sailors of the British ship Loch Flniaa drowned by the wrecking of that vessel off Foster island. OCTOBER. X The French schooner Juniata wrecked on the Grand bank; 25 sailors lost. XL The Hudson river steamer New York burned at Newburg; loss 3600,000. NOVEMBER. XL 10 killed and 20 Injured in the river steamer. H. M. Carter, destroyed by boiler explosion and fire at Bayou Goula. La. 25. Steamer Sardinia, from Liverpool, burned at sea off Malta; over 100 deaths. DECEMBER. X Steamer D. M. Clemson wrecked on Lake Michigan off Duluth; 25 sailors lest.

ACCIDENTS ON LAND

JANUARY. IL 16 children killed in a theater crush at Barnsley, England IX 173 deaths by the burning of the Rhoads Opera House at Boyerstown, Pa. FEBRUARY. 2D. 28 deaths by explosion at the Hercules Powder works at Pinole, Cal. MARCH. A 174 school children killed in a schoolhouse Are in North Collinwood, on the outskirts of Cleveland. 2X 70 lives lost by explosions in a coal mine at Hanna, Wyo. APRIL. A 40 deaths by the collapse of a tenement In London. 30. 41 killed and 60 injured in a railroad collision near Melbourne, Australia. 2X 9 killed and 30 injured in a trolley collision near Ypsilanti, Mich. MAY. X 15. killed and 30 seriously Injured by the burning of the Aveline hotel at Fort Wayne, Ind. IX 7 miners killed and many injured by explosion in the, Mount Lookout colliery at Wyoming, Pa. 2L 60 killed and 100 injured in a Belgian railroad collision near Antwerp. JUNE. X By the explosion of a boiler tube on the cruiser Tennessee, cruising near San Pedro, Cal., 6 of the crew were killed and several injured. AUGUST. 35. 18 workmen killed and many injured by the collapse of a brick block under construction in Chelsea square. Boaton. • 26. 30 miners suffocated in the Halley Ola mine at McAlester, Okla. SEPTEMBER 17. Orville Wright, the airship inventor.

injured and his companion. Lieut. Thomas E. Selfridge, U. S. A., killed by the fall of aeroplane at Fort Myer. 22. 13 French sailors killed and many injured by an explosion of a gun on the cruiser La Touche at Toulon. 36. 20 killed and many injured in a headon collision on the Northern Pacific at Young's Point, Mont.

OCTOBER. 7. Explosion and Are In a grgin elevator at Richford, Vt., resulted in the death of 12 persons and a loss of 8490,000. IX Train Of refugees from the forest fires wrecked near Metz, Mich. Many lives lost. NOVEMBER. IL 9 killed In a wreck on the New Orleans and Northeastern railroad at Little Woods, La IX Over 800 miners killed by an explosion in the Radbod mine at Hamm, Germany. 20. A landslide following a gas explosion caused a loss of a score of lives in Brooklyn. 2X 138 miners killed by coal gas explosion at Marianna, Pa

WORK OF THE FLAMES

JANUARY. IL Loss of 35,000,000 by the' burning of the Parker building in New York city; 3 firemen killed and many injured. 34. City hall and police building destroyed at Portland. Me.; loss 81,000,000. 37. Fire caused a loss of over 8800,000 in the wholesale district of Portland, Me. FEBRUARY. 5. Loss of 5500.000 by fire in the business district of Rochester, N. Y. Fire caused a loss of 3400,000 at Berlin, N. H. MARCH. L Fire swept over an area of 65 acres at Tampa, Fla., causing a loss of 3600,000. S. The famous Drury Lane theater burned in London. APRIL18. Fire destroyed 20 blocks in Chelsea, Mass; 13 deaths and a property loss of 810,000,000. MAY. ' 8. Loss of 31,500.000 by Are in the business district of Atlanta. 15. Loss of 81,250,000 by fire in the Omaha Packing Co.’s plant at South Omaha. JUN*. • 18. Plant of the Shelby Steel Tube Co. burned at Shelby, O.; loss 82,000,000. M. Loss of 81,000.000 by the burning of a grain elevator at Duluth. JULY. 8. Fire on the Boston piers caused a loss of 81A00,000. AUGUST. 8. Bush fires started a conflagration which swept over 100 square miles of territory in British Columbia; loss 87,000,000, and many deaths reported. Mi Fire in the business district of New Orleans caused a lose of 81.500,000. SEPTEMBER. . 8. Forest fires wrought destruction to towns and villages in Minnesota and Wisconsin; damage estimated at upward Of 36,000,000. 4. Fire destroyed the business section of Rawhide, Nev., causing a loss of 8750,000. 18. Fire destroyed the plant of the Cosmodale Cement Co. near Louisville, Ky.; loss 82.000,000. 1 OCTOBER. 14. Loes of 3500.000 by fire which nearly destroyed the town of Bisbee, Aril. Loss of 350C.010 by the burning of the Jenkins lumber mill plant at Blaine, Wash. 13. Fire in a lumber plant at Rock Island. 111., caused a loss of 8500.000. 18. The Colonnade and other buildings on th* Chautauqua assembly grounds at Jamestown. N. Y.. destroyed by fire; lose 81S.OOO •

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MWIVJ®MnBTBR< | IX The Park theater, Brooklyn's flMsflt playhouse, burned. 18, Fire in the Tom Moore distillery warehouses at Bardstown, Ky„ caused a loss of 3400,000 on stock and 8150,000 government tax. | DECEMBER. A Malvern Hill, historic mansion on the Site of the battlefield of July 1, 1862, estroycd. Loss of 3500,000 by flames at the Grand Trunk railway docks, Portland, Me,

CONVENTIONS.

MARCH. 10. The International Congress of Mothers convened in Washington. APRIL 20. The National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, met in annual convention in Washington. 21. The general society. Daughters of the Revolution, met in New York city. 80. The national congress, Sons of the American Revolution, opened in Buffalo. MAY. A The National Society of Colonial Dames met in Washington. The general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church met in Baltimore. IX Congress of governors met in Washington. 19. The Southern Baptists met in convention at Hot Springs. Ark. 21. The general assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United states met in Kansas City, Mo. 38. Internationa] congress of aeronauts met in London. JUNE. X Eighth biennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at Columbus, O. 9. Reunion of United Confederate Veterans at Birmingham, Ala. 15. World's temperance congress met at Saratoga Springs. International Woman’s Suffrage alliance met in Amsterdam. 18. International Sunday school convention in Louisville. 22 The general Federation of Women's Clubs met in Boston. 29. National Educational association met in Cleveland. JULY. 7. National good roads convention met in Buffalo. IX Federation of American Zionists met at Atlantic City. 11 Convention of the Western Federation of Miners opened at Denver. 17. Universal peace congress met in London. 19. National congress of Esperantists met at Chautauqua, N. Y. AUGUST. 10. Annual conventions of the International Typographical and of the Stereotype™ and Electrotypers’ unions, also the American Federation of Catholic Societies, opened in Boston. 16. The 83d annual convention of the National Editorial' association opened at St. Paul. 17. International Esperanto congress met In Dresden, Saxony. 25. National society. Sons of Veterans, met at Niagara Falls. 30. Annual encampment of the United Spanish War Veterans opened in Boston. 8L 42d annual encampment of the G. A R. opened in Toledo. SEPTEMBER. 0. 19th annual international eucharistic congress convened in London. 34. 28th annual meeting of the farmers’ national congress opened at Madison, Wil. 2X Triennial international congress on tuberculosis opened in Washington. Convention of the American Bankers’ association opened in Denver. 29. 16th session of the national irrigation congress opened in Albuquerque, N. M. OCTOBER. A 19th transmieslssippl commercial congress met in San Francisco. 7. The national Inland waterways convention opened in Chicago. IL First International congress of road builders opened in Paris. 15. doth annual convention of the National American Woman Suffrage association opened in Buffalo. 2X Convention of the National Woman’s Christian Temperance union met in Denver. NOVEMBER. 0. 28th annual session of the American Federation of Labor opened in Denver. IL 15th annual convention United Daughters of the Confederacy met at Atlanta. IX The first American Catholic missionary congress opened in Chicago. 17. The Atlantic deep convention met in Baltimore. 2X Conference of New England governors at Boston. 2X American Association For the Advancement of Science met in Baltimore. DECEMBER. X American mining congress opened in Pittsburg. 14. American Civic Federation met in New York. 28. American Association For the Advancement of Science opened tn Baltimore. •

FINANCIAL TROUBLES

JANUARY. 1 Receivers appointed for the Chicago and Great Western railway. MARCH. 3L Knickerbocker Trust company in New York opened its doors after a suspension of 5 month*. APRIL. M The New York Stock Exchange firm of Coster, Knapp & Co. failed for nearly 84.000,000. MAY. S' ■: L W. A. Stetson, leather dealer, failed in Boston; liabilities about 83,000,000. 4. Inman A Co., cotton brokers, failed in Augusta, Ga.; liabilities 81,250,000. 8. Th* Euclid Avenue Trust Co. of Cleveland assigned with liabilities of 81.700.000. 86. The Amador Mining and Development Co. of Montana failed in Chicago. JULY. 13. Cameron, Currie & Co. of Detroit, - members of the New York Stock Exchange. placed in hands of a receiver, owing 81.000,000. AUOUBT. 3. Th* Pillsbury-Washburn Flour MUI* Co. In Minneapolis placed in receiver’s .hands; liabilities 89.000,000. 36. A. O. Brown & Co.. Stock Exchange proker* in New York, faUed with heavy liabilities. SEPTEMBER. Ml A. Booth ACo., fish and oyster Arm, placed in receiver’s hand* In Chicago; liabilities 85,500,000. OCTOBER. CT. K. H. Gray & Co., stockbrokers in Boston, thrown into bankruptcy, owing nearly 88.000.000. NOVEMBER. M. A. Boardman A Co., brokers, fatted in Philadelphia: liabilities 31.000.000.

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